Second Order

Jet2 Holidays: A viral jingle 🎶

Why a budget airline's jingle became 6.6 million videos

Jun 16

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May 2026

IKEA's Trash Collection: How Showing Products in Garbage Doubled Buyback Rates

The sustainability campaign that worked because it made the brand look implicated, not heroic.

May 1

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April 2026

Doritos All Dressed NPCs

The Fortnite campaign that turned the most ignored thing in gaming into the most talked about.

Apr 24

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March 2026

Rovio Made 51 Games That Flopped.

Here's What Actually Happened With the 52nd.

Mar 17

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23andMe Had 15 Million Customers' DNA. Here's What Went Wrong.

What the collapse of a $6B company tells us about building on data you can't monetize

Mar 15

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Notion: How Two People in Kyoto Built a $600M Business Without a Sales Team

In the winter of 2015, Ivan Zhao was coding in his underwear in a two-story house in Kyoto with paper walls and no heating.

Mar 11

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AI's Biggest Market Isn't Software. It's the $Trillions Spent on Human Labor.

Hey—It’s Tom

Mar 8

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February 2026

The Dupe Economy

Private label is no longer playing defense. It's winning.

Feb 28

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Wrappers are dying

The survivor story Is more interesting.

Feb 27

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The Trap Disguised as a Gift

Usage-based pricing is a growth story that only works once you've already won.

Feb 12

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January 2026

Your News Doesn’t Have To Be Overwhelming

Your News Doesn’t Have To Be Overwhelming

Jan 30

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The Company That Said No to $6 Billion (And Regretted It)

Hello hello!

Jan 26

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